Flatpack Festival
Film for all the senses

The Other Side of Hope

Sunday 9th April, 2017

The Electric Cinema Screen 2 | 20:45 - 22:30

A timely contribution from Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki.

This timely contribution from Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki entwines the struggles of a Syrian asylum seeker newly arrived in Helsinki on a coal freighter, and a poker-playing local who walks out on his alcoholic wife. Having escaped the violence of Aleppo and threatened with deportation by Finnish authorities, Khaled finds work at a ramshackle restaurant populated by others bumping along the bottom. The second in a proposed trilogy after Le Havre (Flatpack 2012), The Other Side of Hope has everything we’ve come to expect from Kaurismäki: sumptuous colours, 50s rock n roll, deadpan humour and a wry humanity.

Dir: Aki Kaurismäki Finland 2017, 98 mins

Cert: 12

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